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What does jealous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jealous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover or spouse's fidelity. [from 13th c.]
  2. Protective, zealously guarding, careful in the protection of something one has or appreciates. [from 14th c.]
  3. Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. [from 14th c.]
  4. Suspecting, suspicious.
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And her eyes were outlined in black eyeliner, making her green eyes stand out even more, which she was jealous of.
His house is huge and his dogs were so happy and friendly when I arrived, but now the oldest seems jealous of the attention he is giving me.
I imagine many so-called moralists are secretly jealous of teens engaged in pleasure, as opposed to any serious moral valuation they may hold.
The Soviet Union had better technology and more money to spend on it than America, and that made the Americans jealous, even envious.
Despite being backstabbers and fiercely jealous of each other, I think of writers as an international guild.
Some English people feel jealous of Scotland's better roads, free higher education and a more efficient welfare system.

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